A vegan woman who ordered a plant-based meal on a plane claims she only received a small bottle of water.
Miriam Porter, who goes by the name The Kind Traveler on TikTok, made sure to make her dietary preferences very clear well ahead of her long-haul flight from Toronto to Frankfurt with Air Canada.
The vegan food writer was therefore shocked to discover that no animal free product was available on the jet, she claimed.
For the first meal she was served on the plane Miriam claims she simply received a bottle of water.
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For the second, the hungry vegan got nothing, she has said.
"POV: You are on an Air Canada flight for over ten hours and order vegan meals," she wrote on TikTok.
Miriam added in the comments a "shout out to the kind flight attendant" who brought her some fruit and bread rolls from business class after a considerable wait.
Many people took to the comments to ask why she had not prepared snacks for the flight.
Miriam responded: "Before you say bring your own food, I always do - but this was already a 24 hour delay/cancelation, I had no access to prepare anything."
Other, slightly more sympathetic commenters shared their own horror stories about trying to get vegan meals on flights.
One woman said of her meal onboard a recent flight "my meal was a small bun with 3 slices of zucchini. That was it lol."
Another commenter said they flew on a different airline last week which "only had ham and cheese sandwiches.
"They didn’t even have cheese sandwiches let alone anything vegan."
While bringing your own food onto a plane is often the answering to any potential issues, doing so can have its own problems.
A McDonald’s breakfast order landed a traveller in a spot of bother after they were fined more than £1,500 for trying to bring the undeclared food items into their home country.
The contraband McDonald’s package, which included two egg and beef sausage McMuffins, hot cakes and a ham croissant, was detected at Darwin airport, in Australia, by new detector dog Zinta last month
The returning passenger was issued an infringement notice for $2,664NZD (£1,531) while the items were seized. The meat products would be tested for foot and mouth disease before they were destroyed.
According to 9 News reports Australia’s Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Murray Watts, said Australia was committed to staying “FMD-free”.
Air Canada was contacted for comment.
